A new interleaved Bachelor of Electrical Engineering Program
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Abstract
This paper describes a new four-year Bachelor of Electrical Engineering program being introduced in British Columbia (BC), Canada at the BC Institute of Technology (BCIT). The program addresses the need in industry for engineering graduates that have a solid practical focus as well as the expected theoretical depth and topical breadth of knowledge. The program works in tandem with a nationally accredited two-year diploma of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology. The program structure allows both the existing diploma program and the degree program to be optimized based on their respective priorities and market needs, i.e., there is no need to impose major changes on the diploma program in order to accommodate the degree program. The result is a pair of programs that allow students to graduate with either a diploma or a degree, and also to return after receiving their diploma to complete their degree later. This structure provides, in effect, a two-stage entrance evaluation process which allows the program to draw from a broader pool of prospective engineers, thereby providing a path to the profession to people that may otherwise have missed the opportunity. The programpsilas curriculum uses a contextual or spiral approach, where applications are introduced prior to theory, and then revisited once the theory is developed. While the program described here is designed to help address the shortage of electrical engineers in Canada, similar conditions prevail in the United States and elsewhere, and similar programs may be useful in addressing these shortages.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.040 | 0.010 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".